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Series: Mini Books
ISBN: 9781914454752
Eva Wong Suk Kyun
This book provides significant insights into the historical and theological development of classical Pentecostalism in the process of contextualisation in the Malaysian socio-cultural and multi-faith context. It is a systematic and comprehensive investigation into how the Assemblies of God Malaysia progresses from a classical Pentecostal movement towards the new identity of a ‘Contemporary Pentecostal Church Movement’, and the way forward for missions and Pentecostal spirituality in this twenty-first century.
Series: Global Voices from Latin America
ISBN: 9781914454813
Juan B Stam Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Clark Edited by Mark Greenwood
The Latin American theologian Juan Stam addresses one of the most burning yet rather controversial issue in the contemporary world, not least among the evangelical Christians – the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Stam builds a solid biblical foundation for creation theology by elaborating the theme ‘from creation to new creation’. He brings clarity to various texts in the Bible which have been mis-read or mis-interpreted by evangelical Christians. Similarly, he points out texts that have been left without attention yet are important to understand the Biblical meaning of ‘good news’. This makes the book a great resource for preaching and Bible studies.
Series: Edinburgh Centenary
ISBN: 9781908355942
Kapya Kaoma
As the world comes to terms with the human-caused destruction of God’s sacred creation, whether Global Christianity will celebrate a bi-centennial Edinburgh 2110 becomes a real question. Yet, as Creation Care in Christian Mission shows, the mounting and life-threatening ecological crisis is at the heart of the mission of God. The volume’s contributing authors represent a wide range of Christian traditions and geographical regions on which they draw to initiate dialogue on creation care within the wider global Christian community. They explore hard questions relative to climate change, population growth, pollution, poverty, sustainability, economic justice, deforestation, gender, and land issues. Written with academics, missionary and development agencies, and ordinary Christians in mind, this work presents a global unified spiritual and ethical voice on Creation care. The diversity of contributors from established scholars and religious leaders makes this work a unique and critical resource for understanding human responsibility toward God’s creation. The book offers hope to all Christians, for Christian mission can positively aid ecological responsibilities and actions.
Series: Handbooks
ISBN: 9781914454608
Editors: Daniel Beros, Eale Bosela, Lesmore Ezekiel, Kambale Kahongya, Ruomin Liu, Grace Moon, Marisa Strizzi, Dietrich Werner
Environmental protection, climate justice and the transition to ecologically responsible forms of human civilizations have become a global priority for the whole of humanity. Several regional ecumenical organizations (REOs), National Councils of Churches and members of both World Council of Churches (WCC) and Action of Churches Together (ACT Alliance) have taken a pioneering role in bringing and keeping imperatives related to climate resilience, environmental stewardship and ecological consciousness on the international agenda. Churches, faiths actors and civil society organizations more strongly than ever before are stating that there are limits to the commercialization, financialization and exploitation of nature, natural resources and indigenous people on this earth. There is growing recognition that continued destruction of natural habitats will definitely destroy the sensitive interactive systems between plants, animals, fungi and fishes on earth, thereby threatening the survival of all. The vast contextual theological work, advocacy efforts and practical as well as educational projects from churches in the global South in the area of eco-theologies, creation care, climate justice and ethics of sustainability are still less known and made visible. This provided motivation for this International Handbook on Creation Care and Eco Diakonia to be prepared for the WCC assembly in Karlsruhe (Germany) in September 2022 in collaboration with All African Conference of Christian Churches (AACC), Christian Conference of Churches in Asia (CCA), United Evangelical Mission (UEM), an International Communion of Churches in Three Continents, and ecumenical think tanks in Latin America (REET).